This past month I have been serving in Nepal. We had roughly 20ish days for ministry. It was different not living with the whole squad.
Instead of living with 50 people I was living with 14 and rooming with 5 instead of 20. My team (W.O.H.C tribe) and To The Wind got to live with our ministry host and his family in the Kathmandu area. For the first part of Nepal We stayed in there house, slept 5 girls on the floor per room. Their family treated us like we were family from the time we walked in the door.
much different from Swaziland’s ministry of kids everyday, our ministry was constantly changing. Every night before dinner, we would find out what tomorrows ministry would be.
We did women’s ministry, hiking ministry. (I considered sitting down that day to never get up again) I can’t even begin to describe how steep some of those
hills are and we hiked for 7 hours. We went to a Hindu orphanage where we just got to hang out and play with the 17 kids who lived there!
There was a church service in our house on Saturdays. Sundays we went to a church where we got to worship in Nepalis, English and Chinese. 2 days in a row we went to a Hindu school we talked to the kids and hung out in the classroom with them. Two of my squad mates reenacted Ratatouille. (sometimes you have to get really creative).
We visited the monkey temple and prayed as we walked through. After our time in the Kathmandu area we spent 8 days in a place called Gorkha.
We tented there… it was cold… we were in the woods… it took nearly an hour to walk anywhere. Oh, did I mention we had to hike uphill to get anywhere.. It was an interesting time. While in Gorkha we went on house visits and worked with two different churches. We visited the Gorkha museum and learned a little bit of history. We walked up to a place called the kings
palace, it’s actually a temple. We walked up over 1,000 stairs to get there, I saw people carrying goats that they had just sacrificed and men who worked in the temple who had blood on their feet like it was a normal thing.
Thoughts:
Leaving Swaziland wasn’t my favorite thing in the world. I was comfortable and I loved it there. I really didn’t want to leave but I knew I had to.
As I was preparing to leave Swazi I was getting nervous for Nepal. I didn’t know what to expect. I had heard mixed reviews from other people about how some loved it and others not so much. I made it through the travel days and when we hit the ground I thought ‘this is okay, it wont be that bad’ boy was I wrong… as soon as I walked outside of that airport the battle began. I didn’t want to be here I wanted to go back to Swazi. I say I didn’t like Nepal. Although that is true to some extent, Nepal was still good! The
Lord still worked and I’m seeing now what an impact Nepal had on me.
Until next time
Your girl, CG
